Hysteria
noun
A state of uncontrolled excitement, fear or panic.
News of the robbery spread hysteria among the bank customers.
Often appears as...
- mass hysteria
- hysteria over
noun
A psychological disorder characterized by conversion of psychological stress into physical symptoms.
She was diagnosed with hysteria due to the extreme amount of stress she was under.
Often appears as...
- case of hysteria
- diagnosed with hysteria
noun
A state of uncontrolled excitement, fear or panic.
News of the robbery spread hysteria among the bank customers.
Often appears as...
- mass hysteria
- hysteria over
noun
A psychological disorder characterized by conversion of psychological stress into physical symptoms.
She was diagnosed with hysteria due to the extreme amount of stress she was under.
Often appears as...
- case of hysteria
- diagnosed with hysteria
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Hysteria conveys a strong emotional reaction that may seem irrational or exaggerated.
The village was in hysteria after the sighting of an unidentified creature.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Behavior
Often used to describe frenzied collective reactions, not just individual panic or fear.
The crowd's hysteria grew as the concert was unexpectedly canceled.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Usually has negative connotations, suggesting reactions are unreasonable or unmanageable.
The media's portrayal of the incident caused widespread hysteria.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Hysteria conveys a strong emotional reaction that may seem irrational or exaggerated.
The village was in hysteria after the sighting of an unidentified creature.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Behavior
Often used to describe frenzied collective reactions, not just individual panic or fear.
The crowd's hysteria grew as the concert was unexpectedly canceled.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Usually has negative connotations, suggesting reactions are unreasonable or unmanageable.
The media's portrayal of the incident caused widespread hysteria.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Hysteria conveys a strong emotional reaction that may seem irrational or exaggerated.
The village was in hysteria after the sighting of an unidentified creature.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Behavior
Often used to describe frenzied collective reactions, not just individual panic or fear.
The crowd's hysteria grew as the concert was unexpectedly canceled.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Usually has negative connotations, suggesting reactions are unreasonable or unmanageable.
The media's portrayal of the incident caused widespread hysteria.
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What happens when you...
around the world, of a strikingly similar post-infectious disease. All of these outbreaks have tended to disproportionately affect women, and in time, when doctors failed to find the one cause of the disease, they thought that these outbreaks were mass hysteria. Why has this idea had such staying power?
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Ugly History: Japanese...
Children of incarcerees began a movement calling for the United States to atone for this historic injustice. In 1988, the US government officially apologized for the wartime incarceration– admitting it was the catastrophic result of racism, hysteria, and failed political leadership.
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History vs. Sigmund...
one of the most innovative thinkers in the history of psychology. An egomaniac who propagated pseudoscientific theories. Well, which is it? He tackled issues medicine refused to address. Freud’s private practice treated women who suffered from what was called hysteria at the time,
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The End of the World PIPE...
year's worth of supplies with you you might want some sort of rainwater catchment system you might want to locate a spring but you have to worry about your long-term food supply with the world in deep shock many people just carry on as normal others fall prey to mass hysteria
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How did Dracula become...
Austrian soldiers and government officials observed and documented the strange local burial rituals, and their reports became widely publicized. The resulting vampire hysteria got so out of hand that in 1755, the Austrian Empress was forced to dispatch her personal physician.
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A low-cost, reliable...
took a science research course at my high school and I didn't really know what I wanted to do so at the advice of my teacher I looked in the news and it's kind of going back to the other talk we heard but I was just really drawn to the media hysteria and fear surrounding the
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How pandemics spread
and more than 1,000 people were dead. For all that the virus was rapidly contained, however, there was little that could be done about the alarming news reports carried by cable news channels and the Internet. As bloggers added to the hysteria
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Jumping the Border Fence...
on top with the basically their sharp edge on the top of the fence poor Kevin por que hicieron aku sorrow return hysteria larysa que sé donde kiryas llegar universe so have said I got a pretty significant amount of blood but he seems
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The way we think about...
or women with hysteria. We don't think epilepsy is caused by the devil anymore, so that's cool. We constantly change and evolve, the more we understand as a society. And biological sex is on a spectrum. It's not black or white.
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Why I love a country...
were looked on with suspicion and fear and with outright hatred simply because we happened to look like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor. And the hysteria grew and grew
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What happens when you...
around the world, of a strikingly similar post-infectious disease. All of these outbreaks have tended to disproportionately affect women, and in time, when doctors failed to find the one cause of the disease, they thought that these outbreaks were mass hysteria. Why has this idea had such staying power?
Video examples
Ugly History: Japanese...
Children of incarcerees began a movement calling for the United States to atone for this historic injustice. In 1988, the US government officially apologized for the wartime incarceration– admitting it was the catastrophic result of racism, hysteria, and failed political leadership.
Video examples
History vs. Sigmund...
one of the most innovative thinkers in the history of psychology. An egomaniac who propagated pseudoscientific theories. Well, which is it? He tackled issues medicine refused to address. Freud’s private practice treated women who suffered from what was called hysteria at the time,
Video examples
The End of the World PIPE...
year's worth of supplies with you you might want some sort of rainwater catchment system you might want to locate a spring but you have to worry about your long-term food supply with the world in deep shock many people just carry on as normal others fall prey to mass hysteria
Video examples
How did Dracula become...
Austrian soldiers and government officials observed and documented the strange local burial rituals, and their reports became widely publicized. The resulting vampire hysteria got so out of hand that in 1755, the Austrian Empress was forced to dispatch her personal physician.
Video examples
A low-cost, reliable...
took a science research course at my high school and I didn't really know what I wanted to do so at the advice of my teacher I looked in the news and it's kind of going back to the other talk we heard but I was just really drawn to the media hysteria and fear surrounding the
Video examples
How pandemics spread
and more than 1,000 people were dead. For all that the virus was rapidly contained, however, there was little that could be done about the alarming news reports carried by cable news channels and the Internet. As bloggers added to the hysteria
Video examples
Jumping the Border Fence...
on top with the basically their sharp edge on the top of the fence poor Kevin por que hicieron aku sorrow return hysteria larysa que sé donde kiryas llegar universe so have said I got a pretty significant amount of blood but he seems
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The way we think about...
or women with hysteria. We don't think epilepsy is caused by the devil anymore, so that's cool. We constantly change and evolve, the more we understand as a society. And biological sex is on a spectrum. It's not black or white.
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Why I love a country...
were looked on with suspicion and fear and with outright hatred simply because we happened to look like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor. And the hysteria grew and grew
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Rutger Hauer
Dutch Actor
I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.
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Charles Platt
English Author
Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen.
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Robert Zubrin
American Scientist
I don't think we should have to do a Mars mission on the basis of hysteria. I think we should do a Mars mission on the basis of a deliberate judgment that what we want to do is open up a new planet for humanity... that we are continuing to be a nation of pioneers.
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Meg Rosoff
American Writer
There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.
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Virginia Postrel
American Writer
By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.
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Tennessee Williams
American Dramatist
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Cybill Shepherd
American Actress
When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.
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V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian Novelist
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
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Tadashi Yanai
Japanese Businessman
I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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Rutger Hauer
Dutch Actor
I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide.
Quote examples
Charles Platt
English Author
Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen.
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Robert Zubrin
American Scientist
I don't think we should have to do a Mars mission on the basis of hysteria. I think we should do a Mars mission on the basis of a deliberate judgment that what we want to do is open up a new planet for humanity... that we are continuing to be a nation of pioneers.
Quote examples
Meg Rosoff
American Writer
There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.
Quote examples
Virginia Postrel
American Writer
By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.
Quote examples
Tennessee Williams
American Dramatist
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Quote examples
Cybill Shepherd
American Actress
When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.
Quote examples
V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian Novelist
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
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Tadashi Yanai
Japanese Businessman
I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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